Spanish Communist Workers' Party (1921)

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Spanish Communist Workers' Party
Founded13 April 1921
Dissolved14 November 1921
Split fromSpanish Socialist Workers' Party
Merged intoSpanish Communist Party
IdeologyCommunism
Marxism
Political positionFar-left

The Spanish Communist Workers' Party (Partido Comunista Obrero Español) was a communist party founded on April 13, 1921 by the terceristas, including Virginia González Polo, Daniel Anguiano, Eduardo Torralba Beci, Manuel Núñez Arenas, Luis Mancebo and Evaristo Gil,[1] who had been trying to persuade the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) to join the Third International. When the PSOE Congress voted to join the Vienna International and refused Bolshevism, the terceristas broke away.

A new Communist Party of Spain was founded on November 14, 1921 through an act of merger of Partido Comunista Español and Partido Comunista Obrero Español. The unified PCE soon adhered to the Comintern.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Víctor, Alba (1983). The Communist Party in Spain. Transaction Publishers. pp. 46–47. ISBN 1412819997.